Food and Drink BYCU Priming your pump in this damp January Photo by Joel Moysuh / Unsplash 2024 Doesn't Look Good for Beer2023 wasn't good either. Beer continues to lose share to spirits, but it's nice to see Pabst did well.On tap in 2024: More Modelo, tequila, canned cocktails, whiskey and non-boozy beveragesNew celebrity booze in 2024: Chris Stapleton’s Traveller Whiskey, Rolling Stones’ Crossfire Hurricane rum and Rod Stewart’s Wolfie’s Whisky.USA TODAY, USA TODAYBut That's Not Stopping a Clothing Designer from Jumping into ItThe reason: "Eating is activism." It's a regenerative agriculture thing. Of course. Why Patagonia Is Getting Into The Beer BusinessPatagonia Provisions was established as a division of Patagonia to promote regenerative agriculture and to promote food and beverages made from regenerative crops.ForbesDon TseYikes. If This Doesn't Drive Folks Back to Beer, Nothing WillAward-winning sheep’s milk vodka to make U.S. launch in Lexington, plans productionThis new rare spirit first took innovation to a new level overseas and is now looking to do so here in the Bluegrass.Yahoo NewsJanet PattonExactly. That's Why You Use the Larger GlassesRemoving large wine measures cuts drinking by 7.6% in studyWith the largest measure off the menu, 7.6% less volume of wine was sold daily, researchers found.BBC NewsAurelia FosterHealth reporter, BBC News
Rare Figs + a Strain of Yeast from 850 B.C. = Ancient Egypt Beer The idea came to Dylan McDonnell early in the pandemic, when a sourdough-baking craze took over a nation under lockdown. Mr. McDonnell, an amateur brewer who lives outside Salt Lake City, saw Seamus Blackley, a video game designer, boasting on social media about baking bread with 4,500-year-old Egyptian yeast.
How Many Beers Does It Take to Find the Tao? C.S. Lewis would’ve said “zero.” It’s the Tao that helps you find the beer. It is Nature, it is the Way, the Road. It is the Way in which the universe goes on, the Way in which things everlastingly emerge, stilly and tranquilly, into space and time.